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45. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Two angels, one of them playing a hand-organ, in a circle (7-3/4 inches diameter), pencil, and coloured chalks.

Designed as a Christmas card for the late Rev. Alfred Gurney.

First published in photogravure in ”Second Book,” again in ”Later Work.” Also in photogravure, 3 inches diameter, for private circulation. (Property of Mrs George Bealby Wright.) Christmas, 1892.

46. LA FEMME INCOMPRISE. Pen-and-ink and wash. First published in the spring number of _To-Day_, 1895; again in the _Idler_ magazine, March 1897.

47. SANDRO BOTTICELLI, three-quarter face to left, pencil, signed with monogram A.V.B.; 14 7-3/4 inches; a reconstruction of the Florentine painter's physiognomy from his extant works, to ill.u.s.trate Aubrey Beardsley's theory that every artist tends to reproduce his own physical type. Presented by the artist to Aymer Vallance, Esq. First published in the _Magazine of Art_, May 1898; afterwards in ”Early Work.” _c._ 1892-3.

48. RAPHAEL SANZIO. Full-length figure, three-quarter face to left, a decorative panel in pen-and-ink, 10-3/4 3-7/8 inches, exclusive of border lines. Unpublished. (Property of Messrs Obach & Co.)

49. CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS. Pen-and-ink.

50. SMALL BOOKMARKER, woman undressing, a Turkish table in the foreground.

Pen-and-ink. First published in ”Second Book,” again in ”Later Work.”

(Property of Sir William Geary, Bart.) 1893.

51. HERMAPHRODITUS, seated figure, pencil and pale colour tints. Reproduced in colour in ”Later Work.” (Property of Julian Sampson, Esq.)

52. L'APReS-MIDI D'UN FAUNE, par Mallarme; four designs extra-ill.u.s.trating a copy of. One of them, a pen-and-ink vignette of a faun, full face, signed with monogram A.V.B., was published in ”Second Book.” The others unpublished. 1893.

53. DECORATIVE SKETCH DESIGN OF A SAILING s.h.i.+P. 1-7/8 2-1/2 inches.

Pen-and-ink on white from the back of a letter to Aymer Vallance, Esq. First published in _Magazine of Art_, May 1898; again in ”Early Work.” _c._ 1893.

54. ANGEL PLAYING HAND-ORGAN. Pen-and-ink and slight wash, on pale grey notepaper, from a letter to Aymer Vallance, Esq. First published in _Magazine of Art_, May 1898; again in ”Early Work.” _c._ 1893.

55. THE PALL MALL BUDGET, 1893 and 1894.

I. MR H. A. JONES AND HIS BAUBLE; pen-and-ink. Feb. 2, 1893, p. 150.

II. THE NEW COINAGE. Four designs that were not sent in for compet.i.tion, p. 154. Another design, embodying a caricature of Queen Victoria, was suppressed.

III. ”BECKET” AT THE LYCEUM.

1. Mr Irving as Becket; wash drawing. Feb. 9th, front page.

2. Master Leo, p. 188.

3. Queen Eleanor, p. 188.

4. Margery, p. 188.

5. The King makes a Move on the Board, p. 188.

6. Miss Terry (as Rosamond), p. 188.

7. Mr Gordon Craig, p. 190.

8. The Composer, p. 190.

IV.

1. THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF EMILE ZOLA, p. 202.

2. EMILE ZOLA; a portrait, p. 204.

(Republished in ”Pall Mall Pictures of the Year,” 1893, and in _The Studio_, June 1893.)